Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Please be advised our scheduled meeting on Thursday 9th January has been CANCELLED.
As a result of the inclement weather we have no other option than to cancel this week’s meeting. The forecast is for more snow and plunging temperatures in the next 3 days. Getting in or out of the hall car park could be tricky as too the path down to the club door.
Our meetings will continue on the 23rd January weather permitting.
Start time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 9th January 2025. It has been organized by myself (Alec Mutch) and the subject matter is working with Natural Edges or inclusions, that could mean a piece of faceplate work or something made between centres, as long as some of the natural elements are left on the item that’s being made will fulfil the criteria.
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Our meeting on Thursday 12th December 2024 was our last meeting for 2024, it culminated in also being the last Competition for 2024, a stand alone Competition where anyone can enter anything they had made this year.
Continue reading “Report on our Christmas Competition and Grand Raffle draw.”
Start Time 6.45pm.
Our next meeting is the last meeting for 2024, and will be held on Thursday evening 12th December 2024. It’s our annual Competition for the MacGregor shield, a stand alone competition where everyone can enter as many pieces as they wish, the rules of the competition have already been distributed to all the members by email, here is a short version of these rules,
Continue reading “Our next meeting 12-12-2024. Christmas Competition and grand raffle draw.”
Our meeting on Thursday 28th November was a joint venture by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson, Alan was in charge of the exhibition lathes, one, two and four, Nick was overseeing lathes three and five as part of the training programme.
Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 28-11-2024. Organized by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson as a joint venture into both exhibition work and training.”
START TIME 6-30PM.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 28th November 2024. It’s being organized by Alan Smith and was originally set out with all 5 lathes in use, each of them doing their own thing, however due to bad weather the training session booked for the 21st November got cancelled.
Continue reading “Our next meeting is on the 28-11-2024, it’s being organized by Alan Smith.”Minutes from the meeting on 14th November are available in the Club Minutes & Documents page
Our meeting on Thursday 14th November was arranged by Susan Drew, Susan had chosen Pyrography as her theme for the meeting. Over the past few years since Susan had joined our club she had shown various items in competitions and in general that she had decorated using a Pyrography machine, these were all very well received by the turners, so much so that she was requested to do a session demonstrating her art.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 14-11-2024 organized by Susan Drew.”
Start Time 6.45 pm.
Our next meeting will be on Thursday 14th November 2024, it’s being organized by Susan Drew and Susan’s theme for the meeting is to make use of a Pyrography tool to embellish her woodturnings. Susan has an excellent touch when it comes to using a Pyrography machine, something she hopes to pass on to some of the club turners. We as turners don’t seem to have the magic touch that Susan has for this very delicate art, but it is something we all appreciate and would like to emulate.
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We had another training day on Thursday 7th November 2024, organised by Nick Simpson, there were 5 pupils with 5 turners doing various stages of woodturning, also present was our safety observer for this tutorial Mark Sutton and Susan Drew who kindly agreed to take a few pictures of the proceedings.
Continue reading “Another training day, 07-11-2024.”